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During this full of life and provocative booklet, feminist public sociologists flip to classical social thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim--to comprehend a sequence of twenty-first century social traumas, together with the bloodbath at Columbine highschool, the September 11 assaults, the torture at Abu Ghraib legal, and typhoon Katrina.

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But don’t we sometimes believe the premises and reject the conclusion of a valid argument? And is the belief, for example, that yoghurt is better than sour cream really part of my system of beliefs? One’s beliefs are more likely to form not a system but just a “multitude”: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes),” Walt Whitman wrote. I mention in this book, and sometimes discuss in detail, the views of various philosophers, from Plato, Kant, and Hegel to Moore, Wittgenstein, and Sartre.

But it is not about them. There is nothing puzzling about this. Arithmetic also applies to humans, as well as to bats and stars, but it is neither about humans nor about bats or stars. It is about numbers. In attempting to answer the skeptic, subjective epistemology hoped to find cogent inferences, formal or nonformal, from premises it deemed known to be  Gottlob Frege, “Thought,” in M. Beaney, The Frege Reader (Oxford: Blackwell), 325 – 326.  Beaney, 36. ” Epistemology-as-logic, however, does not ask whether the premises of such an inference are true, nor does it agonize if the inference is not deductive.

Rather, it is about the necessary conditions of all thought and talk about entities. As such, it is intimately related to subjective epistemology, as intimately as Kant’s phi-  Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (Chicago & La Salle: Open Court, 1985), 37. Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 7/1/15 4:55 PM 42 Chapter Two: Three Varieties of Epistemology losophy was related to Hume’s, and can cast further light on it. That Hume’s skepticism led to Kant’s transcendental idealism was not just an event in Kant’s personal life.